(Happy birthday to me.)
"How could you call it a garbage bin?" Lin Chuan expressed his strong displeasure at the former "Omniscient and Omnipotent One" slandering the "Lord of the Mysteries," the "Avatar of Sefirah Castle." "Isn't it more of a junk pile?"
Grisha once again gained a clear understanding of just how well this "Outer Deity" had maintained his humanity. After a moment of silence, he said solemnly to Lin Chuan:
"I don't know what your adjacent pathways are, but if you intend to accommodate Sefirah Castle, I will have to do everything in my power to stop you."
"No matter how well you're maintaining your humanity now, you could never contend with both 'The Faceless One' and the 'Lord of the Mysteries' at once. Your only possible fate would be to lose yourself."
Lin Chuan almost spoke, then held back. What do you mean, "my" psyche has to contend with "The Faceless One"? Seriously? I have to fight myself?
But he had no intention of explaining his circumstances to Grisha just yet. Quite apart from whether Grisha would believe him... he wanted to hear what Grisha would say next.
No, Grisha would never believe something so bizarre-unless, one day, Lin Chuan got bored enough to kill himself and then showed Grisha his special trick of resurrecting through a Beyonder of his own pathway.
The Faceless One has awakened inside me!
Even that would require Lin Chuan's pathway to have a Sequence 1 angel, who would also have to receive a boon from "The Supreme" or above to ensure he would not return to the Boundless Void the instant he advanced.
Grisha mistook Lin Chuan's silence for disagreement.
That made sense. They were both Great Old One Remnants. His own struggle against Primordial God Almighty had given rise to